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Google, has become an emblematic case of complicity with the censorship to have agreed with the government of China the contents of its pages. Currently and as part of its commercial strategy to search for new markets.


 the results of the search engine oriented to the Chinese user undergo a previous filtering, which obvious, although informing about it, the results that may be contrary to government policies.

Google wins the Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities 2008; Prize given by the Prince of Asturias Felipe de Borbón on October 24, 2008, at the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo, Spain, co-founder Larry Page and vice president Nikesh Arora.

Google is considered the best search engine in the history of the Internet and allows millions of users around the world to access knowledge and information in a fast and organized way.

Google was founded in September 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Stanford PhD students.

In 1995 Larry and Sergey start working at the "Digital Library Project" of Stanford University. Beginning to create an algorithm for data search. That technology that Larry calls "PageRank" would later become the "heart" that will make Google work.




In 1996 they begin to develop a search engine called "BackRub". And as they indicate in their description, BackRub is written in Java and Python, and runs on several machines. The database is hosted on a Sun Ultra II computer with 28GB hard drive.

In 1997 BackRub becomes "Google", the name comes from a play on words with the term "googol", coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of the American mathematician Edward Kasner, to refer to the number represented by a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The use reflects the company's mission of the immense amount of information available on the web. And that same year Larry and Sergey register the domain "google.com".